There is a pile of cleaned, based and basecoated miniatures sitting in the corner of my desk - mainly various undeads for my Vampire Counts army. They are ready to be painted yet it turns out that there is always something more pressing to paint. Well, I really should paint all of them - so I decided to start with just one ghoul. This is twenty second painted ghoul for my forty strong unit (and as I luckily bought about another dozen of old edition ghouls, I have slightly more then forty miniatures now), so current plastic ghouls will form a basis for another, smaller ghoul unit. But this is in the future. I paint metal ghoul in about 3 hours now so I should be able to finish at least five per week - in theory. In reality I have always something more important to paint, something waiting even longer or something shiny and new:) Add to this that I'm unable to concentrate for more then 10-15 minutes on painting lately... Well, I really should make something like "ghoul painting week", and paint at least ten of them. Maybe next month;)

This Ghoul King's servant visible next to this note was painted on black undercoat. It makes painting dark skin much easier as all I have had to do after painting basecoat were some shadows (Black mixed with Shadow Grey). Then were just highlights - first Shadow Grey, then gradually more and more Dheneb Stone (great colour, I really like how versatile it is), pure Dheneb Stone and final highlights were painted with White mixed with very, very tiny amount of Dheneb Stone again. It turned ok, I think. But the thing I really like the most on this miniature is leather loincloath. I painted it with previously unused new GW color Tuskgor Fur as a basecoat, making shadows and highlights with Snakebite Leather, Dheneb Stone and White and final result is really, really great - for me anyway:)